
WOMEN ORGANIZE TO FIGHT GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Women now represent 35.5% of Brazil's docu- mented labor force-up from 20.8% in 1970-the largest proportion of employed women in ...

BRAZIL The Persistence of Inequality
An upbet--ifslightly wary--Brazil celebrated the New Year with the inauguration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, an old leftist who led ...

The CUT: New Unionism at a Crossroads
Brazil's new trade unionism faces a basic paradox: at the very peak of the CUT's ifluence in the broader political ...

Letters
Colombia Solidarity I Want to congratulate NACLA for publishing Ana Carrigan's "A Chronicle of Death Foretold: State- Sponsored Violence in ...

Reviews
Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena by John Burdick, University of Califor- ...

Taking Note
The Age of Discipline It has been a growing source of concern among many of the defenders of Latin America's ...

RACISM IN THE COURTS
The Geledes Black Women's Institute charged in court that a Sgo Paulo shop owner was publicly maligned by a neighboring ...

TV SERIAL CHARGED WITH RACISM
The Geledes Black Women's Institute decided to take on one of the continent's mightiest media giants by suing TV Globo ...